The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-06-15
The Giiy Of the Sand Hills.

The City Of the Sand Hills.
FuLToS, June 13, 1887.
Summer to the earths richest wealth IS
given.
Thou Croesus OF the year.
June! Beautiful, happy June, rob
ed in all thy enchanted splendor,
beautifed with thine own precious
jewels-ssthe flowers which bloom in
june" and, above all. the 'Sieast OF
roses"-the beautiful aud proud Queen
of Flowers! Who can envy the lovely
dweners OF the famed vale Of CASH
mere, so beautiful is every garden
with these lovely treasures OF Jun,
which kissed by the gentle zephyr,
generously commit their fragrance to
the heraldry OF the air, and from the
leafy cloisters finds an according an
swer in the birds musical peans Of
praise to the luscious odors OF June
lime. Why attempt ':to paint the Ill
~ and gid refined gold? TO thee
thou voiuptuous Queen of months,
Goth our orisons arise, in our coven-
pardon US gentle reader, for this
time attempting to mingle the spon
tlneous gushings of our heart with
tae beautiful and sublime, ard believe,
that should NE meet YOU again, we
viii be neither forgetful of our faults,
nor ungrateful for your indulgence.
The heart of the citizen of classic
Fulton, pulsates with emotions OF
ride, for verify the "bun" hath perch
"a on her (Fulton's) patrician ensign,
and her beautiful hills and fertile
meadows Will soon be traversed by
the Manchester and Augusta Railroad.
3lr.J. II. Hardin, of Cheraw, has been
a@arded the contract, wherewithal the
embryo railroad builders of Fulton,
bloweth muchly, prayeth hardly for a
Job, and getteth 'sleft" badly.
Nr. Colin C. Manning, has decided
to adopt Law as his profession, and
has sone to Sumter to study under
y T: B. Haynsworth, ESQ.
.he Misses Caotey, whose presence
aaded such charm to society in the
s.Sand Hills" have returned to Cam
dci,, laach to the sorrow Of ::ye lights
al Fulton town, sir
a;f. John Csnty, OF Camden has 81
so returned home, doubtless carrying
with him some very pleasant remem-
b.arces.
Mrs. D. r. Williams is visiting her
father, Governor Manning.
That
Full man. sho: at random, sent.
Finds mark the archer little meant.
/, certainly exempliied when some
persons imagined my comments con
tanned in an article to the II,Ezs, ua-
Der date April 18th, as applying IL
themselves Why they should come
to this conclusion, I can't conceive,
unless it was the rcmorseful panSs Of
aguiity conscience quality which
hitherto I have considered some peo
pie as devoid of, as they are Of brains.
Truly ssthe wicked feeth when no
man pursueth.' I have deemed Ger
tain bellieerent gentlemen(9 and their
malignant statements as unworthy Of
the distinction of my notice, but from
recent misrepresentation, I would be
doing violence to my sense Of Justice
TO others, did I permit certain state
ments to pass unrefuted. It has been
asserted BY my criticisers, who have
about as much conception OF the cor
rect definition Of English diction, as /.
plckaninry on the banks G the Congo
has of the philosophy expounded in
the Noyum organum, that my Ian
guage was designed to reflect upon,
and impugn Trial Justice ana his
constable, and Mr.. E. P. Geddings.
This is utterly false; these three gen
tlemen are too highly esteemed to re-
Quire any ercomium at my hands
The spasmod;c futterrings OF few
badly wounded scavengers, is matter
of no consequence tome. l hope that
I can claim with truth ana becoming
ing modesty that my name and char
acter are enthroned upon an eminence
too high to be tarnished by the cal
luminous mud perpetually spewed up
from the filthy depths OF certain gan
creme cesspools of etete humanity.
Whenever my expressions chance to
be successful diagnosis Of my fellow
citizens foibles, the damnation viii
,,ork r,,,o,n ti,n.n nrl MT ,,,,c,r,